Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare